Gottfried Semper The Ideal Museum Author:Peter Noever, Andrew Benjamin, Harry Mallgrave, Isabella Nicka, Gottfried Semper The German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper was a founder of Modernism. Forced to leave Dresden in 1849, he composed this important manifesto on the phenomenology of materials and the systematization of the ideal museum while in exile. Published in transcription for the first time, with original line breaks, this volume includes all drawi... more »ngs and some manuscript pages in facsimile.« less